By Nicola J. Watson
You may have already learn the booklet - why stopover at where? whilst and why did readers begin traveling websites with literary institutions - no matter if writers' graves, birthplaces, homes, or the atmosphere in their novels? This unique, witty, illustrated learn bargains the 1st analytical historical past of the increase and improvement of literary tourism in nineteenth-century Britain, linked to authors from Shakespeare, grey, Keats and Burns to Scott, the Brontë sisters, and Thomas Hardy. necessary for the scholar of literature, the commute literature and the tourism of the 19th century.
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Like Lyric Muse points up towards Milton, so connecting the two writers;1 sometimes it has unintentionally comic side-effects, such as Sir Walter Scott’s apparently sardonic benignity as he gazes at the voluptuous bottom of the personified ‘History’ who is for some reason shoving off the ignoble multitudes from clambering over the Duke of Argyll’s immense tomb next door. Altogether less animated are those writers gift-wrapped in plain boxes like Chaucer and Spenser, or apparently potted up like Abraham Cowley into handsome urns swathed with sashes.
Hall, writing in 1850, recorded her guide telling her that the site was much visited, and that visitors scratched their names on the walls, and ‘took away bits of the yew and wild flowers’. ’50 They were more likely to regard the romantic anonymity of Gray’s tomb, combined with the rural peace of the churchyard, as the emotional centre of gravity to the experience. This anonymity, apparently accidental since Gray’s will makes no such specification, nevertheless appears congruent with, not to say overdetermined by, the Elegy, dissolving Gray not merely into the speaker of the poem, but also into the anonymous dead poet with whose epitaph the poem closes.
As is well-known, An Anthology of Corpses 35 Laurence Sterne’s body was stolen after burial in 1768, and only escaped dissection at the last minute through being recognised on the slab by the surgeon; it is unclear, however, whether his body was stolen to order as a literary curiosity of interest to the medical profession. 32 It is possible to date this desire to converse with dead poets and writers with some precision. Although, as the fame of Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard shows, the culture as a whole was hospitable to the idea of meditating upon the tombs of the dead from at least the second half of the eighteenth century, the conceit of actually holding converse with the dead seems to date only from around 1800.